Basti was originally known as village. The origin of the name
Vaishishthi is attributed to the fact that this area was the Ashram of
Rishi (sage)
Vashistha
in ancient period. Lord rama with his younger brother laxman had been
here for some time with rishi vasistha.

The tract comprising the present district was remote and much of it was
covered with forest. But gradually the area became inhabitable, for want
of recorded and reliable history it cannot, with any degree of
certainty, be said how the district came to known by its present name on
account of the original habitation (Basti)
having been selected by the
Kalhan Raja
as a seat of his Raj, an event which probably occurred in the 16th
century. In 1801,. Basti became the
Tehsil
headquarters and in 1865 it was chosen as the headquarters of the newly
established district.

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